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Bang, crash, wallop: Google Street View car involved in three collisions Bang, crash, wallop: Google Street View car involved in three collisions
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The driver of a Google Street View car fled in his vehicle after a collision with minivan near the Indonesian capital Jakarta - and then was in a collision with another minivan and a parked truck, police there reported.
/>The driver of the Google-branded Subaru, with its distinctive roof-mounted Street View camera was initially in a collision with a a public minivan - a privately-owned minibus - in the Bogor district on the outskirts ofJakarta.
/>"He did accompany the minivan driver to the garage, but he said he was scared the repair fee would be high, so he got in his damaged car and fled," Bogor district police operations chief Hendra Gunawan told the AFP.
/>The minivan driver chased him for around two miles in his damaged vehicle before the Google car was in a collision with another minivan while attempting to escape.
/>The chase continued as the Google car fled again, finally ending in a third crash with a parked truck.
/>The Google driver, whom police refused to name, was taken in for questioning, but was later released. Photos posted by an eyewitness on a local internet forum showed damage to the front bumper of the car. It's unclear whether anyone was hurt in the multiple incidents - or whether the onboard Street View camera captured the events.
/>Google Street View cars drive along roads with a roof-mounted camera which captures pictures of the area surrounding a location, which is then tagged to a map and made optionally viewable in Google's maps products. Street View cars have driven hundreds of thousands of miles - sometimes with notable incidents: in 2009, one hit a baby deer, and later that year one hit a bridge, while in Botswana one hit a donkey.
/>According to local police, all costs for the damage have now been paid. The repair bill of the first incident alone would have cost around £11, they added.
/>"We take incidents like this very seriously. We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation," Google's head of communications for Indonesia, Vishnu Mahmud said in a statement to the AFP. 		The driver of a Google Street View car fled in his vehicle after a collision with minivan near the Indonesian capital Jakarta - and then was in a collision with another minivan and a parked truck, police there reported.
The driver of the Google-branded Subaru, with its distinctive roof-mounted Street View camera was initially in a collision with a a public minivan - a privately-owned minibus - in the Bogor district on the outskirts of Jakarta.
"He did accompany the minivan driver to the garage, but he said he was scared the repair fee would be high, so he got in his damaged car and fled," Bogor district police operations chief Hendra Gunawan told the AFP.
The minivan driver chased him for around two miles in his damaged vehicle before the Google car was in a collision with another minivan while attempting to escape.
The chase continued as the Google car fled again, finally ending in a third crash with a parked truck.
The Google driver, whom police refused to name, was taken in for questioning, but was later released. Photos posted by an eyewitness on a local internet forum showed damage to the front bumper of the car. It's unclear whether anyone was hurt in the multiple incidents - or whether the onboard Street View camera captured the events.
Google Street View cars drive along roads with a roof-mounted camera which captures pictures of the area surrounding a location, which is then tagged to a map and made optionally viewable in Google's maps products. Street View cars have driven hundreds of thousands of miles - sometimes with notable incidents: in 2009, one hit a baby deer, and later that year one hit a bridge, while in Botswana one hit a donkey.
According to local police, all costs for the damage have now been paid. The repair bill of the first incident alone would have cost around £11, they added.
"We take incidents like this very seriously. We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation," Google's head of communications for Indonesia, Vishnu Mahmud said in a statement to the AFP.
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